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Hi. Ubuntu Unity 24.04 Thunderbird 140.5

When creating a New Message, the top 5 lines are missing - i.e the “End: (U)” (end time) line is displayed at the top of the screen. The only way to enter the Title of the Event is to drag the window down. Also, the Event window CANNOT be resized. This has been happening for more than a year now. Can you help? Thanks, M...

Hi, I want to print a list of selected events in the calendar, is that possible? Or, is there an extension that does it? And in the dream scenario I could export the selected lines to Excel.

//LasseT

I'm running Thunderbird 140.5.0esr (64-bit) on Windows 11 Pro.

I've been using Thunderbird for years, and I've had it connected to my Google Calendars since Lightning added support for it (and before that, used an extension to do it). A few weeks ago, I noticed that none of my Google calendar entries were present. They're just gone, even though they're all listed in Thunderbird and none are hidden. I'm not sure when they first disappeared, so I don't know if it corresponds with a version update (I was using 140.4.0 when I noticed. 140.5.0 didn't fix it).

I tried to re-synchronize the calendars, and nothing appeared, but there were no indications of any errors (nor any indication that there was any update activity occurring).

So then I deleted my calendars, deleted the account authorization info from Thunderbird, shut Thunderbird down, reopened it, and reconnected with Google from scratch. That logged in successfully and let me select which calendars I wanted to subscribe to, but once again, none of their contents are there. Nothing in the past or future.

Is Thunderbird's Google Calendar integration completely broken in v140, or is something corrupted in my Thunderbird install? If the latter, is there some residual file in my profile I should delete after deleting my Google account from Thunderbird, in order to reset this and get it working again?

Edit: I should add that I did check on Google's "syncselect" page for my account to confirm that my calendars are still available for sync. Nothing has changed here since it was last working in Thunderbird.

I wanted to create a calendar event from a message. My purpose was to have a reminder and have the information that was in the message.

I knew this could be done, because I had stumbled on to it before, but I could not remember how I did it.

Again I stumbled on to the procedure. You right click on the message. Select Organize / Convert To and then select Event or Task.

This information should be in Help. I am sure I am not the only one that would like to use this option.

When syncing Thunderbird to Google Calendar, it creates two events for birthdays associated with Google contacts. Though it's not a critical bug, it does seem like after all this time it is something that should have been solved. Is any work being done to address this?

I've seen the workaround to disable birthday "Sync from contacts" in Google Calendar settings, but that removes the birthdays entirely from both Google Calendar and Thunderbird which is not really a solution. Thanks.

when starting a new calendar entry, this may look like this: textline one

  textline two (three spaces at begin)
  textline three (6 spaces at begin)

     textline with tab right

     * Bulleted list itemtextline with bullet point

end of testtext

After closing the edit, the text looks like this: textline one textline two (three spaces at begin) textline three (6 spaces at begin)

textline with tab right

textline with bullet point

end of testtext

However, the edits on my phone, as shown in the image, show that the text structure commands are still there (except bullet point got lost).

So here is my question: how can I get the calendar entries show the obviously maintained text structure?

When I set an event or a task to go off on a certain date and time, nothing happens when the set time is reached. I used to get a pop up showing the event or task on my previous pc with Windows 10. This new pc is Windows 11

I set up some custom (number of days in advance) calendar event reminders of my travel plans in my Google calendar via my cell phone. I have my google calendar linked to thunderbird on my pc. I had accepted the invitations before I left on my trip. (looking at the details of the reminder it shows: "You have accepted this invitation.") I returned home from my trip and have several old flight reminders popping up in my pop-up box in thunderbird. I can try to dismiss them, by clicking on the dismiss button, but nothing happens. They do not disappear. But recurring birthday events from my google calendar, which are also in my T-bird calendar, are able to be dismissed from the T-bird Reminder pop-up box. A new event I created today in google calendar, flowed into T-bird with two custom reminders, but no event invite. (Is the issue with accepting invites?) I have tried unsubscribing and re-adding my google calendar, to no avail. I have tried to clear the T-bird startup cache, both with and without being subscribed to my google calendar, to no avail. Any help is appreciated by this confused user, thank you in advance.

Downloaded the Thunderbird U.S. holidays to my calendar. My calendar is overloaded with miscellaneous and unwanted holidays. I've tried methods on the internet to delete them from my calendar with no success. I'm sure there is a method, but no success in finding it. Please help! Do I need to unistall Thunderbird and start over?

Hi there! The reminder function for termin (for example three days before) doesn't work anymore, but before it works allways. I couldn't find the reason therefore.

Hello! I have a calendar connected via DAVMail (Exchange Server 2019), everything works. But when I create an event in the calendar and start adding participants, autocomplete does not work (there is no list to choose from the address book).

I have an LDAP address book configured for Global Address List (GAL) exchange.

I also imported the address book to Cardbook via .vcf.

How do I set up autocomplete in the calendar? (When writing an email, autocomplete works)

Thunderbird 140.4.0esr (32-bit). My Calendar has stopped working. About a week ago, my entries disappeared and I can't add any. Have you any suggestions please? Kind Regards Andy

I would like to have the ability to edit a calendar event andall future events, but I cannot find a way to do that.

Edit all occurrences is available, but the events that happened in the past I do not want changed, they're history, and I use that history and do not want it lost.

My Android phone's native Google calendar app has the ability to change this and all future events, and I think Outlook's calendar has that ability (but I don't use it for the calendar).

If that doesn't exist, please add it to the suggestion list.

Hi everyone. I am a new user to Thunderbird. Love it. My question is specific to the workings of the calendar. When opening the cal I get a pop up stating that a friends bday is next week. Fine. But I try to dismiss it and that does not dismiss. I can close the popup. When I 2x click on the event. I see that the Organiser: is "Unknown Organizer <unknownorganizer@calendar.google". I see this for all Bdays that were in my google account. </p>

This does not happen with normal events.

I would appreciate any help. Thx

Is there any way to access my Lightning Calendar events programmatically, either by using some command-line access with thunderbird.exe, or by reading the local files where calendar data is cached? I would like to be able to run scripts locally based off my calendar events.

(I didn't see a better question topic to list this under, although this could also be considered a privacy question since bad actors could use these same cli/file access methods to steal calendar data, I suppose...)

Thunderbird : 141.0 (64-bit)

So, I've no idea why, but my Today Pane is now only displaying a single event per day (see image).

For example, Monday 20th October has multiple events, but these don't show.

Is there a fix for this?

With a recent update to Thunderbird I get repeated reminders for events (in a Gmail/Google calendar) that can't be dismissed.

The error states: "An error occurred when writing to the calendar d.......@gmail.com! Please see below for more information."

Details read as follows: "MODIFICATION_FAILED Status Code: 2,147,500,037, null Server Replied with 400 If you’re seeing this message after snoozing or dismissing a reminder and this is for a calendar you do not want to add or edit events for, you can mark this calendar as read-only to avoid such experience in future. To do so, get to the calendar properties by right-clicking on this calendar in the list in the calendar or task view."

They're thrown the next time I start Thunderbird, as well. What gives?

Please don't ask if I have permissions to my own Google calendar. I do. If I log into the same account on the Web, I can edit calendar events to my heart's content. I can change them, create them, delete them, etc. all I want.

I am also not going to set this calendar as read-only, as the Thunderbird error message instructs. That is not an option; it won't happen; and it's not even a solution.

Any other ideas are welcome. Thanks!

I have several calendars on thunderbird, which use different colours for their events. This is great for disambiguation. (e.g. one calendar is for deadlines, another for normal events, one is for reminders, one for personal events, etc).

However, some events I want to appear as Free to others, and some I want to appear as Busy. While when creating the event, I am able to choose whether to appear as Free or Busy, there is no visual difference in the created events on the thunderbird calendar.

In other calendars (e.g. outlook), there is a visual difference, e.g. "solid" colour for busy, vs "striped" for free.

Is there a way to achieve this in thunderbird calendar? If not, please consider it as a future feature.

Best, T.